Helen Clark's airbrushed campaign photo fails to halt Nationals' bandwagon

The New Zealand Herald reported earlier this week about the disparity between New Zealand Labour leader's campaign photo and her real look.  The image on the left - as if we needed to say - is a recent photo and the image on the right is the image she wants to present!  Helen Clark's campaign makeover is doing nothing to reverse the centre-right Nationals' lead in the polls, however. Current polls point to a National lead of 11%; enough to form the country's first conservative government in ten years.

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